Capture the event of closing IE

[Uma Muthu]

Hello Everyone,

How can I capture the event of closing the IE browser from within an ASP.NET
web application?

TIA,
Uma

 

[Guest]

The only thing I could think of is using JavaScript to detect the window
closing and then have the JavaScript fire a server side event. I haven't
done this before so I am giving you some ideas. Try looking up now to fire
server side code from JavaScript and then the client side code for javascript
should be pretty easy to find to detect a window closing. Hope this helps

 

[bruce barker]

there is no foolproof method sort of providing your own browser. the browser
does not fire a close event that can be captured. you can get the page
unload, but this fires on every navigation.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)


| Hello Everyone,
|
| How can I capture the event of closing the IE browser from within an
ASP.NET
| web application?
|
| TIA,
| Uma
|
|

 

[Ken Dopierala Jr.]

Hi Uma,

Below is a reply I've posted in the past on this topic. Ken.

Hi,

As others have said this is a tricky issue. The odds of you getting a
succesful postback are 50/50 to say the best. I've had about a 95% success
rate doing this:

1. Capture the onbeforeunload event in your body tag.
2. Incorporate the WebService.htc.
3. When the onbeforeunload event fires run a function that uses the
WebService.htc to tell a web service.

The browser will close before you get a response back but, about 95% of the
time, your web service will get hit and the user can successfully be logged
out. Note, that using the latest IE and Windows XP you will achieve almost
100% results. This is sort of complicated until you get the hang of it. If
this isn't something you want to try then here is another suggestion to
improve your chances but it might seem clunky to the user:

Have a main page that the user browses to. To run your app, they click a
button or link and then you use window.open() to create a new browser
window. This is the window your app runs from. Don't ask me why, but the
success rate of a postback from onbeforeunload seems to be much higher for
browsers launched from javascript than from browsers launched by the user.
Good luck! Ken.

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

You may be able to take advantage of the client side OnClose event.
Here's more info:
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/dom_window_ref56.html

 

[Uma Muthu]

Thanks everyone. I found this one on net ... Very similar to what Ken said
....

http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/101304-1.aspx

-Uma

 

[prash]

Hi Steve,
i was wondernig about where to write the line
window.onclose = funcRef;

You may be able to take advantage of the client side OnClose event.
Here's more info:
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/dom_window_ref56.html

--
I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD, MVP
http://Steve.Orr.net


"Uma Muthu" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hello Everyone,
>
> How can I capture the event of closing the IE browser from within an
> ASP.NET
> web application?
>
> TIA,
> Uma
>
>

 

[prash]

Hi Steve,
i was wondernig about where to write the line
window.onclose = funcRef;

Can you please give some suggestions?

Thanks and Regards,
Prash

You may be able to take advantage of the client side OnClose event.
Here's more info:
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/dom_window_ref56.html

--
I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD, MVP
http://Steve.Orr.net


"Uma Muthu" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hello Everyone,
>
> How can I capture the event of closing the IE browser from within an
> ASP.NET
> web application?
>
> TIA,
> Uma
>
>

 

[prash]

Hi,

When i navigate to some other page(using Response.Redirect), even then the event "onbeforeunload" gets fired. But i just want it to get fired only when I close IE. Can someone please help?

Thanks and Regards,
Prash